Re: [Libvisual-devel] dangerous free()

[Gustavo S. B. <gu...@gs...>]

Em Thursday 01 July 2004 00:14, Duilio Javier Protti escreveu:
> I have removed temporarily the free() call from
> visual_video_free_buffer(), because we don't
> known if this is memory malloc'ed from us (in XMMS
> plugin this point to the pixels field of the
> SDL_ScreenSurface created by SDL on another thread,
> which can be even a hardware surface).
> -- Thanks to valgrind --
>
> We need some flags inside the VisVideo that
> tells if the screenbuffer was created by us or
> not.

What about using a garbage collector? There is a good one for gcc (-lgd).
It  runs on any code... it replaces malloc() for a special one and make free() 
have no effect

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